Group Media & Photos

Yamaguchi-ken welcome reception for Gizo Nakano, manager of the Yamaguchi Tourism Dept. Bottom row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st), Manzuchi Hashimoto (2nd), Taichi Sato (4th), Chomatsu Tsukiyama (7th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (8th), Sadato Morifuji (9th). 2nd row: Seiichi Shimamoto (2nd), Osuke Shigemoto (4th). Kobayashi Masaichi (9th). 3rd Row: Yuichi Nakaichi (5th from L), Soichi Obata (1st from R). JCCH/ Seiichi Shimamoto Collection.

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Honolulu businessmen, ca. 1950. Front Row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st), Taichi Sato (2nd), Sadato Morifuji (3rd), Katsuichi Kawamoto (5th), Nekketsu Takei (6th), Soichi Obata (8th). Row 2: Seiichi Shimamoto (5th). Row 3: Manzuchi Hashimoto (6th), Ozuke Shigemoto (7th). Back Row: Katsuichi Wakimoto (6th), Motohiro Tanimura (7th), Yuichi Nakaichi (10th). JCCH/ Charles and Claire Richardson Collection.

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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group (Missoula): February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

3月 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

3月 1942 - 5月 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

5月 1942 - 6月 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

6月 1943 - 4月 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

4月 1944

Granada (Amache) Relocation Center, Colorado

7月 1944 - 10月 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

Manzuchi Hashimoto served in leadership positions in the United Japanese Society of Hawaii and the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, two of the Japanese community's most prominent organizations. During the war, his son Akira was a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers and the 100th Infantry Battalion.